
PROJECT FILES FOR:  
	
	Analyzing Decision Records from Committees
	Moritz Marbach

	Please contact Moritz Marbach if you have any problems 
	or questions with these replication files. Current contact details
	are available at: www.moritz-marbach.com

	November 10, 2018
	


OVERVIEW
=========

Folder: Package

Contains a version of the consilium package implementing the multivariate probit with partial observability. A current version can also be installed from github: devtools::install_github("sumtxt/consilium")


Folder: SupremeCourt

Replicates the State Supreme Court analysis. Execute main.R to estimate all models and replicate the figure and table. Run time is about 5 minutes. The subfolder 'results' contains a log file and tex files with the results. 


Folder: SecurityCouncil

Replicates the Security Council analysis. Execute main.R to estimate all models and replicate the figure and table. Run time is about a 3 hours.  The subfolder 'results' contains the log file and tex files with the results. 


Folder: MonteCarlo

Replicates the Monte Carlo simulations in the appendix. run.sh is a bash scripts that calls sim_uniform.R to run the various simulations. Run.sh is setup such that 5 CPU cores are used simultaneously. Run time for the entire simulation set is about a month with 5 CPUs. Table and figures can be replicated by make_figure.R and make_tables.R based on the estimates stored in the subfolder 'estimates'. Results are stored in the subfolder 'results'. 


Folder: Heterogeneity

Replicates the Monte Carlo simulations from the appendix section Neglected Heterogeneity. Call sim_violations.R to run the simulations.  Run time is about six hours. The appendix table can be replicated by make_table.R based on the estimates stored in the subfolder 'estimates'. Results are stored in the subfolder 'results'.


Folder: Illustration

Replicates the figure on the relationship between vote-choice and adoption probabilities for a committee of 20 members. Call fig_adoptionvotechoice.R to replicate the Latex code. 





CORRESPONDENCE
==============


Main text: 

Table 1: (Illustration only)
Table 2: ./SecurityCouncil/results/tab_short.tex

Figure 1: (Illustration only)
Figure 2: ./Illustration/results/fig_adoptionvotechoice.pdf 
Figure 3: ./SupremeCourt/results/fig.pdf


Supplementary Information:

Table SI-1: ./Heterogeneity/results/tab.tex 
Table SI-2: ./MonteCarlo/results/tab1.tex
Table SI-3: ./MonteCarlo/results/tab2.tex
Table SI-4: ./SecurityCouncil/results/tab_desc.tex
Table SI-5: ./SupremeCourt/results/tab.tex
Table SI-6: ./SecurityCouncil/results/tab.tex

Figure SI-1: (Illustration only)
Figure SI-2: ./MonteCarlo/results/figure.pdf




Package Versions 
================

To replicate the exact numerical results, install the same package versions as listed in sessionInfo.txt in the folder SupremeCourt and SecurityCouncil. 